Arizona; Fame and Fortune

I haven't been updating this blog recently since I haven't been traveling, but I think I might pick it up so as to force myself to at least regurgitate some of the math I've been doing. Perhaps I'll even go look through notes I took for previous talks that I once thought I understood, like the talks from Alghero. They eventually sent out lecture notes so hopefully I won't have to work from memory or whatever remains of my notes.

Anyway, right now I'm in Tucson, a little bit too warm for my taste but overall a lot of fun, especially because I know a number of the people here from all the conferences I've been to over the last year, and it's been nice catching up.

A couple of people I ran into were at the conference in Sardinia, and apparently while looking around for notes from the conference they stumbled on to my blog! I can't tell whether to be flattered or humbled or alarmed or what.

Anyway, they made a few comments about professionalism, so I made a back edit or two so that people won't think I'm a total jackass when I'm applying for jobs years in the future.

For those of you who have ever seen this, thanks for your readership! All five of you or more!

Conferences Next Year

Something took hold of me and motivated me to take a quick look at what sorts of conferences would be going on next year, so I'm going to compile them here, just posting links and maybe a one or two sentence note.

http://math.postech.ac.kr/~pntag/Winterschool2012/Postechwinter2012.html

BSD at Postech in South Korea

http://math.ucsd.edu/~kedlaya/ants10/

Algebraic number theory in San Diego, easy to get to, with Bhargava and Lenstra!

http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~t-saito/conf/agwtodai/agwtodai.html

Mostly I just want to go to Tokyo... arithmetic geometry, p-adic hodge theory... I dunno.

http://www.birs.ca/events/2012/summer-schools/12ss131

Diophantine equations in Toronto; should have David from this conference I'm at now.

http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~iwasawa2012/

If I enjoy Heidelberg and if I start getting into Iwasawa theory. Coates and Ralph Greenberg.